Infant&#39;s toilet-bed



;R: LQ DAVIS. INFANTS TOILET BED. APPLLCATION FILED MAR. 29. 1920.

Patented Jan. '18, 1921.

witnpoo To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES ROBERT L. DAVIS, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,

INFANTS TOILET-BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

Application filed March 29, 1920. Serial No. 369,577.

Be it known that I, ROBERT L. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Infants Toilet-Beds, of which the following isa specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

Very young children not yet able to oc cupy sitting position, usually need a great deal of attention whether sick or well in order that their bodies and clothing may be kept clean, and the object of this invention is to materially lessen the difficulty sug gested. This is done by providing a peculiar infants bed, for temporary use from time to time as occasion may require, so constructed as to avoid very largely, at least, contaminating the person or clothing of the infant by bodily wastes and at the same time to avoid danger of chilling any part of the childs body.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure l is a perspective view of the apparatus employed. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the some devices. a

In these figures, A represents a sort of elongated box without bottom and having above a partial top consisting of two equal plates B, B fixed to the walls of the box, extending from end to end thereof, and each sloping from the corresponding lateral Wall of the box toward the medial vertical plane of the box but not extending fully to that plane, whereby the lower edges of the plates are separated by an open passage 0. Above the box, near one end thereof, is a fixed rod D supported by brackets E rising from the lateral walls of the box, and upon the plates between the rod and the opposite end of the box is usually placed a small soft mat or pillow F shown in dotted lines. In use, the box is placed over a common waste receptacle Gr, shown in dotted lines, and so adjusted that the receptacle may be directly below the proper part of the pass sage (I. At the proper time, readily deter wrappings is avoided. no appreciable amount of air can enter the mined by the mother after a few days experience in caring for the particular child, the infant placed with its-back upon the pillow and with its legs slightly flexed and supported by the rod. Waste matter discharged falls through this passage directly into the receptacle, and under ordinary conditions all soiling of the childsbo dy or It is to noted that box from below, and hence there are no currents upon the mfants skin. Furthermore,

if the temperature makes it desirable, suitable coverings may be spread, blanket-like, over the top of the box or bed and be tucked in around the child.

Practical use of the apparatus shows that infants three or four weeks old acquire something like a habit of quicklytaking advantage of the apparatus when placed in position thereon, thus eliminating perhaps five-sixths of the work normally required in caring for them in the matters under consideration. i a

Preferably the entire apparatus is 01 ma terial' which conducts heat slowly so that the infant mayv never be brought into contact with anything like cold metal. I have found that wood is satisfactory, but when used it is first made impervious to moisture in any suitable way, 6. 9., by enameling or by filling its pores with water-excluding material. The apparatus is thus readily kept clean or sterilized, or treated with antiseptic's.

or bed having at its top lateral plates slop ing inwardly downward to a central open channel between them and adapted to re ceive below said channel a receptacle for Obviously the bed or box may have a waste matter, of a bar extending transversely across the bed near one end and V slightly abovethe plane of said )lates.

3. The combination with a 02; or bed having at the top wooden side plates sloping inwardly downward to an open channel and adapted to support a pillow o1 mat at a little distance from one end of said channel,

ROBERT L. DAVIS. 

